Professor Emerita at the University of Notre Dame; poet and novelist, author of The Mutes of Sleepy Eye (poems), Inchbird Press (Seattle, WA), 1981; Brief Lives (poems), University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, IN), 1981; The Way to St. Ives (novel), Scribner (New York, NY), 1982; Women at Forty (poems), University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, IN), 1988; A Breeze Called the Fremantle Doctor (poems and tales), University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, IN), 1997; What You Hear in the Dark: New and Selected Poems, University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, IN), 2006.